You don't need to SORN a car to get a full 12 months tax on renewal. Either you've mis-remembered when you taxed it last year or something has gone wrong, it's not normally the case that you 'lose' a month.
What have you done to your car today?
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You don't need to SORN a car to get a full 12 months tax on renewal. Either you've mis-remembered when you taxed it last year or something has gone wrong, it's not normally the case that you 'lose' a month.
And this is what happens when you have a slightly broader chap in the passenger seat than usual
Guess I'll be taking it to my guy in Southampton to work his magic like he did on the driver's bolster way back when I got the car.
Poke it in with a screwdriver and stick a bit of superglue in there.
... Oh wait you're not me and its not a £500 MX5
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Who remapped it? Seems like there is your problem.
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Have you put in new coilpacks?, running a stage 2 map here and the car ran really bad until coils had been changed. the original coilpacks ran fine on the standard map but the remap exposed them.
are you still running the n249 valve? some of the hoses around that can breakdown easy and cause a boost leak.
Bit of a quality of life upgrade for me today. I installed a new set of door speakers and tweeters to compliment the head unit I picked up a couple of months back. I also added some sound deadening to the inside of the doors - the GT86 has pretty much none, so a few tiles of Dodo hex mat sound deadening material should help when placed behind the speakers to stop tinnyness and vibrations.
Results are great - I'm not an audiophile, but there's a much richer sound now - stronger bass with less distortion, more clarity on the treble and more volume over all. Not much reduction in road noise from the sound deadening, but I only applied it sparingly - but the speakers do sound much better.
I also managed to removed and modify the door check straps - they weren't very tight, and on any incline, the door falls shut far too easily. As I park on quit a steep drive, this meant getting out of the car was difficult as you had to keep one hand on the door all the time to stop it closing on your leg. I found a post on a US forum where someone had managed to take out the mechanism and modify it to add more tension - so while I had the door card and speakers out, I did that too, and I can now open the door and climb out of the car without looking like I'm playing Twister
Results are great - I'm not an audiophile, but there's a much richer sound now - stronger bass with less distortion, more clarity on the treble and more volume over all. Not much reduction in road noise from the sound deadening, but I only applied it sparingly - but the speakers do sound much better.
I also managed to removed and modify the door check straps - they weren't very tight, and on any incline, the door falls shut far too easily. As I park on quit a steep drive, this meant getting out of the car was difficult as you had to keep one hand on the door all the time to stop it closing on your leg. I found a post on a US forum where someone had managed to take out the mechanism and modify it to add more tension - so while I had the door card and speakers out, I did that too, and I can now open the door and climb out of the car without looking like I'm playing Twister
Check out post #11 onwards in this thread, full explanation and gallery available:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82403&page=1
Basically the mechanism is just a pair of plastic and rubber bushes which "pinch" the check strap and should hold it on the detents. If you can get it out of the door and take it apart, you can insert a couple of shims to add more pressure so the strap is held tighter. I fashioned some out of an old plastic bottle. Bit fiddly to get it all back together, and the drivers door could probably do with a little more tension, but it definitely worked.
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Bit bored by the plain home screen layout on the stereo when just driving without an unknown destination so thought I'd make use of a recent Play Store free apps deal where certain apps were free for a limited time. Speedview was one such app, seems pretty cool, may delete later.
Me too!
Just got back from washing my Golf on my parents driveway. Hopefully the neighbours didn’t mind the floodlights 
Someone coming to look at it tomorrow first thing. She asked if it had “dynamic rear lights”. Considering that’s only available on the mk7.5, I said it had full LED rears and adaptive fronts...
She said she had her eye on another one but that one had a sunroof, so maybe my massaging seats will sway her.
Never sold to a women before. Do you think she knows what she’s coming to see? Its horrendously overpriced, but it’s the only 1.4 150ps auto with adaptive cruise currently for sale in the country, so not sure what else she’s been looking at
Someone coming to look at it tomorrow first thing. She asked if it had “dynamic rear lights”. Considering that’s only available on the mk7.5, I said it had full LED rears and adaptive fronts...
She said she had her eye on another one but that one had a sunroof, so maybe my massaging seats will sway her.
Never sold to a women before. Do you think she knows what she’s coming to see? Its horrendously overpriced, but it’s the only 1.4 150ps auto with adaptive cruise currently for sale in the country, so not sure what else she’s been looking at
Took the 911 out for an Italian tune up this afternoon. Lovely weather for roof down driving and no salt on the road as it was 10 degrees. Even had a lady in the Waitrose car park compliment me on the car! I know it’s a modern machine, but considering it’s not been started for 2 months or properly driven since September, it performed beautifully! New Years resolution is definitely to drive it more.
I suspect it depends almost entirely on whether she likes the colour or notJust got back from washing my Golf on my parents driveway. Hopefully the neighbours didn’t mind the floodlights
Someone coming to look at it tomorrow first thing. She asked if it had “dynamic rear lights”. Considering that’s only available on the mk7.5, I said it had full LED rears and adaptive fronts...
She said she had her eye on another one but that one had a sunroof, so maybe my massaging seats will sway her.
Never sold to a women before. Do you think she knows what she’s coming to see? Its horrendously overpriced, but it’s the only 1.4 150ps auto with adaptive cruise currently for sale in the country, so not sure what else she’s been looking at
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Took it back to the remapping place, he has vagcom.
Looks like the DV valve is at fault, people say I should stick to OEM which is my plan. should have been obvious to me as it flutters a lot more than it use to.
Looks like the DV valve is at fault, people say I should stick to OEM which is my plan. should have been obvious to me as it flutters a lot more than it use to.
Didn’t show due to work commitmentsI suspect it depends almost entirely on whether she likes the colour or not
Changing from an OEM diverter valve to a genuine Forge 007p (yellow spring) did wonders for my remapped LCR. The OEM spring rate wasn’t enough to hold pressure properly after the map.
Whatever you do, only get a recirc, as even the mildest of hybrid blow-off/diverter valves really don’t mix well with the 1.8T.